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I think booting/running on a fast CompactFlash (CF) memory card in a CompactFlash to ATA/IDE/SATA-adapter might give better performance than booting/running from USB.
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At $92 for a 4Gig module I think I'd stick with the eBay adapters I linked earlier and a couple of reasonably good CF modules. More space and a HUGE savings!
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Anybody tried to go diskless with netboot? 100Mbit should be fine, GigE would definitely be fast enough.
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Honestly if I had some idea how to set it up I might try it. I have gig-e but I am not sure what is really needed. my DHCP server is on a router, a modded Linksys, so it might be able to provide support if something special is needed. My NAS all run stripped down Linux too so possibly some help there and likely what I'd use to store a boot image anyway. I'll try asking around the unRAID support forum and see if anyone is doing it on one of those boxes.
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My Ubuntu install on my 4Gig Corsair stick loads (seems like) same if not a hair quicker then my 400gig USB hard drive Ubuntu install.